There was a pick-up in the high frequency indicators of economic activity for the latest week.
There were more visits to transit stations. They include bus stops, metros and other transport hubs. Search engine Google uses anonymised location data to track how people are moving during the pandemic. Workplace visits also rose, even as retail and recreation visits dipped (see chart 1).
Indian Railways registered higher growth in the quantity of goods it carried. It was up 9.3 per cent year on year, compared with 8.7 per cent YoY the previous week. The money it made from carrying the goods,